AAB BASIC KNOWLEDGE UPDATED PRACTICE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Examples of Code Modifiers - ✔✔26 professional component
59 distinct procedural service
91 repeat clinical diagnostic laboratory test
✔✔Scoring of Moderate Complexity Procedures - ✔✔Score of 1: indicates lowest level
of complexity
Score of 2: assigned to a criteria heading when the characteristics for a particular test
are intermediate between the descriptions listed for scores 1 and 3
Score of 3: indicates highest level of complexity
✔✔Scores will be totaled for Moderate Complexity Procedures - ✔✔Score < 12:
moderate complexity
Score of >12: high complexity
✔✔Competency evaluations - ✔✔employee competency evaluation is the process of
documenting, usually in measurable terms, the employee's technical skills; evaluation
should be completed on an annual basis
✔✔Quality controls procedures - ✔✔-performed on a routine basis to monitor the
stability of the method or test system
-control & calibration materials provide a means to be indirectly assess the accuracy
and precision of patient test results
✔✔Qualitative tests - ✔✔positive control
negative control
✔✔Quantitative test - ✔✔2 controls of different concentrations
✔✔Assayed controls - ✔✔verified by laboratory
✔✔Unassayed controls - ✔✔established by laboratory
✔✔Levels of personnel: provider performed microscopy (PPM) - ✔✔-director
-testing personnel
✔✔Levels of personnel: moderate complexity testing - ✔✔-director
-technical consultant
-clinical consultant
-testing personnel
✔✔Levels of personnel: high complexity testing - ✔✔-director
, -clinical consultant
-technical supervisor
-genera supervisor
-testing personnel
✔✔5 key elemts of OSHA Hazard communication standard - ✔✔1. materials inventory
2. labeling
3. MSDS
4.Training
5. Written Program
✔✔NFPA Color-Coded Label - ✔✔Draw diamond
✔✔NFPA Colors & what it represents - ✔✔Red: fire
Blue: health
Yellow: reactivity
White: Specific
✔✔Safety training - ✔✔must be kept for 3 years from date of training session
✔✔Fire Safety Training - ✔✔(RACE)
R: remove patients/coworkers
A: Activate alarm
C: contain fire by closing doors
E: extinguish/evacuate
✔✔Fire extinguisher operation - ✔✔(PASS)
P: pull pin
A: aim base at fire
S: squeeze handles
S: sweep side to side
✔✔Amount of blood components in an average adult male - ✔✔Approximately 5 quarts
(4.75 L)
3 quarts of plasma (2.85L)
2 quarts of cells (1.9L)
✔✔Classifications of major blood cells - ✔✔Red cells: Erthrocytes
White cells: Leukocytes
Platelets: thrombocytes
✔✔Red blood cells - ✔✔-contain hemoglobin (transports oxygen to tissue and carbon
dioxide)
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Examples of Code Modifiers - ✔✔26 professional component
59 distinct procedural service
91 repeat clinical diagnostic laboratory test
✔✔Scoring of Moderate Complexity Procedures - ✔✔Score of 1: indicates lowest level
of complexity
Score of 2: assigned to a criteria heading when the characteristics for a particular test
are intermediate between the descriptions listed for scores 1 and 3
Score of 3: indicates highest level of complexity
✔✔Scores will be totaled for Moderate Complexity Procedures - ✔✔Score < 12:
moderate complexity
Score of >12: high complexity
✔✔Competency evaluations - ✔✔employee competency evaluation is the process of
documenting, usually in measurable terms, the employee's technical skills; evaluation
should be completed on an annual basis
✔✔Quality controls procedures - ✔✔-performed on a routine basis to monitor the
stability of the method or test system
-control & calibration materials provide a means to be indirectly assess the accuracy
and precision of patient test results
✔✔Qualitative tests - ✔✔positive control
negative control
✔✔Quantitative test - ✔✔2 controls of different concentrations
✔✔Assayed controls - ✔✔verified by laboratory
✔✔Unassayed controls - ✔✔established by laboratory
✔✔Levels of personnel: provider performed microscopy (PPM) - ✔✔-director
-testing personnel
✔✔Levels of personnel: moderate complexity testing - ✔✔-director
-technical consultant
-clinical consultant
-testing personnel
✔✔Levels of personnel: high complexity testing - ✔✔-director
, -clinical consultant
-technical supervisor
-genera supervisor
-testing personnel
✔✔5 key elemts of OSHA Hazard communication standard - ✔✔1. materials inventory
2. labeling
3. MSDS
4.Training
5. Written Program
✔✔NFPA Color-Coded Label - ✔✔Draw diamond
✔✔NFPA Colors & what it represents - ✔✔Red: fire
Blue: health
Yellow: reactivity
White: Specific
✔✔Safety training - ✔✔must be kept for 3 years from date of training session
✔✔Fire Safety Training - ✔✔(RACE)
R: remove patients/coworkers
A: Activate alarm
C: contain fire by closing doors
E: extinguish/evacuate
✔✔Fire extinguisher operation - ✔✔(PASS)
P: pull pin
A: aim base at fire
S: squeeze handles
S: sweep side to side
✔✔Amount of blood components in an average adult male - ✔✔Approximately 5 quarts
(4.75 L)
3 quarts of plasma (2.85L)
2 quarts of cells (1.9L)
✔✔Classifications of major blood cells - ✔✔Red cells: Erthrocytes
White cells: Leukocytes
Platelets: thrombocytes
✔✔Red blood cells - ✔✔-contain hemoglobin (transports oxygen to tissue and carbon
dioxide)
